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dallas said:
AllAll said:

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=169593

the reaction is funny "1700 different components and 500 million transistors, there are obviously many things that can malfunction" so there are millions of reasons why the red ring will continue to haunt xbox owners.

 

 


The number of components is probably irrelevant as MS's definition would probably be totally different than a random electrical engineer counting the parts. The heat thing, is a big deal. Look at the problems that Intel went through in the 90's with those faulty chips, whose reputation took a long while to "fix" even after the logic error of said chips was totally fixed.

Look for MS to keep pretending that nothing at all is wrong, until a large % of the 360s that haven't been given another heatsink/65nm upgrade, have been implemented as the new standard.


QFT. It does not make much sense. It is like a developer explaining a major bug in a game by saying: "There are millions of polygons in this game, the complexity of the game make it hard to solve the bug".



Satan said:

"You are for ever angry, all you care about is intelligence, but I repeat again that I would give away all this superstellar life, all the ranks and honours, simply to be transformed into the soul of a merchant's wife weighing eighteen stone and set candles at God's shrine."